11, CLEMMY8. 109 



without lighter variegations ; a large, subtriangular orange spot ou 

 each side above the ear ; limbs brownish yellow, with black and 

 orange spots. 



Length of shell 9 ceiitim. 



New York to North Carolina. 



a. S , spir. Upper Darby, Pensylvania. Smithsonian Instit. [P.]. 



b. $ , ypir. Pensylvania. 



c. 2, stffd. N. America. 



7. Cleinmys guttata. 



Testudo guttata, Schneid. Schrift. Ges. Nat.urf. Fr. x. p. 264 (1792). 

 punctata, Sckoepff", Ted. p. 2o, pi. v. (1792) ; Baud. Rept. 



ii. p. 159, pi. .xxii. (1802); Leconte, Ann. Lye. N. Y, iii. p. 117 



(1830). 

 Emys guttata, Scluceigg. Prodr. p. 40 (1814) ; Du7n. ^ Bibr. ii. 



p. 295 (1835); Holbr. N. Am. Jferp. i. p. 81, pi. xi. (1842); 



I)cA-ai/, Faun. N. Y.,Itept. p. 13, pi. vi. fig. 12 (1842) ; Gray, Cat. 



Tort. p. 2G (1844); Wied, N. Acta Ac. Leo^i.-Carol. xxxii. i. p. 22 



(1865;. 



punctata. Men: Tent. p. 24 (1820). 



Terrapeue punctata, Bonap. Osserv. s. sec. Ed. d. It. A. p. 159 



(1830). 

 Geoclemys guttata, Gray, Cat. Sh. Itept. i, p. 19 (1855), and Suppl. 



p. 27 (1870). 

 Nanemys guttata, Agassiz, Contr. N. H. U. S. i. p. 442, pi. i. figs. 7-9 



(1857). 

 Clemmys guttata, Strauch, Chelon. Stud. p. 107 (1862), and Verth, 



Schildh: p. 67 (1865). 

 Geoclemmys sebae. Gray, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 188. 

 Chelopus guttatus, Cope, Chech-List N. Am. Rept. p. 53 (1875). 



Carapace moderately depressed, smooth and without trace of a 

 keel in the adiilt ; nuchal xexy narrow, often almost linear ; verte- 

 brals 2 to 4 much broader than long, a little narrower than the second 

 costal. Plastron large, concave in the males, openly emargiuate 

 posteriorly ; the width of the bridge much less than the length of 

 the hind lobe ; abdominal shields larger than pectorals ; the longest 

 median suture is that between the anal shields, the shortest that 

 between the humerals ; axillary and inguinal shields small or 

 absent. Head moderate ; snout not prominent ; upper jaw not 

 hooked, notched in the middle ; the width of the mandible at the 

 symphysis nearly equals the horizontal diameter of the orbit. Digits 

 short, with short or rudimentary web ; claws moderate. Tail about 

 one third the length of the shell in the female, two fifths to one 

 half in the male, two thirds in the young. Carapace deep black, 

 each shield with one or more round yellow spots ; plastron black 

 and yellow, the black usually predominating ; head black above, 

 with a few round yellow spots, and a larger subtriangular one on 

 each side above the ear ; lips, lower surface of neck, and limbs 

 black and yellow or reddish. 



Length of shell 11 centim. 



L^uited States, east of Ohio and north of South Carolina. 



